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Some promising news...

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told teams Monday to expect spring training to begin on time in February and for a 162-game regular season to occur, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports.

1st - Trea Turner
2nd - Shane Bieber
3rd - Yu Darvish
4th - Brandon Woodruff
5th - Manny Machado
6th - Jose Abreu

Ummmm, that may be the most dominating 6 pack start to a main event draft EVER. Nice job and congrats!

I’m liking the early emphasis on SP this year!

For Mr Emma and I, a big part of going to live events includes going out to enjoy the city (NYC and LV). IF these cities have mandatory mask mandates and bars are basically closed, that’s likely a deal breaker for me going to LV and my NYC trip will be a very quick trip. Again, this sucks. My favori...

There's not much to be gained in making a decision now, only to overturn it with more knowledge later. It's not just the DH in the National League. We don't know other rules as well.... How many playoff teams... Double Header length... Runner on 2nd for the 10th inning... Will those be kept? Yup. U...

Thanks for the mention, Dan. I love talking fantasy baseball; however I typically refrain from discussing players for the upcoming season. Too much risk of owners simply stealing evals/pics and using them for their own benefit and my detriment. I’m not an industry guy so I’m not in a position where ...

My other suggestion would be that if you manually put yourself on Auto, you should be taken off auto if your queue runs out. A lot of times there's say 5 guys I like and I have to leave for a few hours but I'm 7-10 picks away. There's a 95%+ chance that one of my guys will be available so I'd put m...

There is also the respect factor. If a drafter goes to sleep at 10 pm without using auto, that shows little respect to those that stay up late because.....well....they signed up for the draft. If a west coaster is going to bed at 2AM ET and won’t be up until noon ET, is it disrespectful for them no...

i don't watch any games, including postseason. FWIW, when i read about this, it sounded just as doughy said, cash outsmarted himself (unless snell somehow indicated he was hurt or out of gas). and to top it off, cash replaced snell went with Nick Anderson. The same player who acknowledged after Tues...

Interesting. Can’t wait to read more about this.

Will you play in big events? My plan entering 2020 (26 week season) was no more than 4 FAAB leagues with the most important being the 10K Diamond Auction. Entering 2021, I’ll be sticking with a max of 4 FAAB leagues. With Covid still around and additional risks due to coming off a 60 game season (S...

Hi Mark! Is it the length of the season or the whole Covid thing? For example, what if we start 2021 in earnest with a six month schedule. But Covid interferes with the season. It's knocked down to 120 games. Do you feel it should be Asterisked again? 2020 was far different from anything we've done...

Hi Doughy!! "Most do not agree". :lol: While everyone deserves to be acknowledged and congratulated for accomplishments, I don't compare the skill set an owner demonstrated over a 60 game season with that of a 162 game season. The gap is simply too large for me. And yes, as the luck% increases, I ag...

Thanks for the response, KJ. Any ranking system will have pros and cons. Thanks again for doing this.

for a Hall of Famer to basically say "I'm not ranked high enough" seems self-grandizing to me. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you're not saying that, but it sure seems that way. Thanks again KJ for your efforts. And I think you made the right evaluation of 2020. ya, you are misreading it, greg. i had 4 sec...

What a goofy hill to defend: Asterisks should be attached to all 2020 champions and the 2020 season. Stupid. You take obscure views Mark, but this one takes the cake. You know how hard you had to work to manage multiple second place finishes this year and it took every skill possible. Was more luck...

Ha, I don’t remember what I did yesterday, let alone anything I asked b4 the season. FWIW, I know it’s the “right” thing to say that winning this year shouldn’t be any lesser of an accomplishment, but we all know it is, even if some can’t/won’t say asterisk. That’s okay, your rankings so you get to...

Ha, I don’t remember what I did yesterday, let alone anything I asked b4 the season. FWIW, I know it’s the “right” thing to say that winning this year shouldn’t be any lesser of an accomplishment, but we all know it is, even if some can’t/won’t say asterisk. That’s okay, your rankings so you get to ...

Apologies for the laziness; however does this partial year (60 games season) factor the same as if it was a full season (162 game season) in your calculations? 37% equivalent to 100%?

Doughy - I thought I read something about being “closed for the season”?

LOL!

I’ll echo the feedback on faab processing. GREAT, GREAT improvement!

Ha! No blame for you Greg. Covid is 100% out of your control. I’d still vote for you to be MLB commish and right the ship

Hey, we’re almost back to normal. DeGrom scratched with INJURY (not Covid related). His owners take a big fat zero this week the old fashioned way.

Fingers crossed but tomorrow could be the first time in almost three weeks that all 30 MLB teams play on the same day. The St. Louis Cardinals are expected to return tomorrow with a doubleheader at Chicago against the White Sox. They are going to play seven doubleheaders the rest of the way to brin...